---
title: "Get Load Balancer Frontend Average Percentage CPU Utilization Metrics"
method: GET
path: "/v2/monitoring/metrics/load_balancer/frontend_cpu_utilization"
tags: ["DigitalOcean-public.v2-new_Monitoring"]
---

# Get Load Balancer Frontend Average Percentage CPU Utilization Metrics

`GET /v2/monitoring/metrics/load_balancer/frontend_cpu_utilization`

To retrieve frontend average percentage CPU utilization for a given load balancer, send a GET request to `/v2/monitoring/metrics/load_balancer/frontend_cpu_utilization`.

## Query parameters

- `lb_id` string, required
- `start` string, required
- `end` string, required

## Response `200`

The response will be a JSON object with a key called `data` and `status`.

- Metrics
  - `data` MetricsData, required
    - `result` MetricsResult[], required — Result of query.
      - `metric` object, required — An object containing the metric's labels. These labels are key/value pairs that vary depending on the metric being queried. For example, load balancer metrics contain a `lb_id` label, while Droplet metrics contain a `host_id` label, and App Platform metrics contain a `app_component` label.
      - `values` array[], required — An array of values for the metric.
        - union[]
          - union
            - integer
            - string
    - `resultType` 'matrix', required
  - `status` 'success' | 'error', required

## Other responses

- `401` — Authentication failed due to invalid credentials.
- `429` — The API rate limit has been exceeded.
- `500` — There was a server error.
- `default` — There was an unexpected error.

## Changes

- **2025-10-16** `cb3bf9b21459` — 2 info
  - api tag `DigitalOcean-public.v2-new_Monitoring` added
  - api tag `Monitoring` removed
- **2025-07-18** `f8e8c290636c` — 1 info
  - endpoint added
- **2025-07-17** `5fc9af728e82` — 1 breaking
  - api path removed without deprecation
- **2025-07-17** `f8e8c290636c` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/digitalocean/apis/digitalocean-api/changes/v2/monitoring/metrics/load_balancer/frontend_cpu_utilization/get.md)

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